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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 20, 2019 1:25:21 GMT
Another convicted transporting child images person has been arrested and is in jail now.... Within dt's circle of aquaintences, worked on his transition testimony many hours with Mueller and grand jury....... George Nader, a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation with links to associates of President Trump, has been indicted on sex trafficking charges, according to multiple reports.The three-count indictment, unsealed on Friday in the Eastern District of Virginia, accuses the Lebanese American businessman of transporting a 14-year-old boy from Europe for sexual activity, The Washington Post reports. Nader, 60, has pleaded not guilty and is set to stand trial Sept. 30, the Post reported. ** In initial charges filed earlier this year, authorities accused Nader of possessing child pornography when he arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport from Dubai in January 2018. The Justice Department said at the time that Nader pleaded guilty in 1991 to the same charge of transporting explicit images of minors.** Nader was a key figure in Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, sitting for multiple interviews, including one that was conducted under a “proffer agreement” — a potential signal that he believed he could be charged with crimes and spoke to prosecutors on the condition his statements wouldn’t be used against him. **
He has had some kind of child porn conviction in the Check(?) Republic.
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Post by jayfab on Jul 20, 2019 3:14:41 GMT
casii I'm so sorry for your loss.
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Post by Merge on Jul 20, 2019 3:21:07 GMT
Check out this guy's bio. Big 'ol racist on the Trump 2020 campaign advisory board.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 20, 2019 4:27:25 GMT
He must have been on the wrong side of town! We must hold onto the House and win the Senate!
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Post by dewryce on Jul 20, 2019 5:07:35 GMT
Egads! Mexican soccer jerseys! We’re doomed!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 5:47:01 GMT
casii I am so very sorry for the loss of your mom. Such a deep loss. My sympathies to you and your family. I'm so sorry you had to go through that stupidity on top of your loss. Hugs to you. Sending you strength and love right now. You always have kind words for others. Xo
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 14:06:36 GMT
Paul Waldman Washington Post.
“What the latest Stormy Daniels revelations tell us about future Trump scandals”
On Thursday, court documents regarding Stormy Daniels from the case against Michael Cohen were released to the public, and while this might seem like just an addendum to a fading story, it offers a fascinating glimpse into how different the political world is right now, compared with three years ago, when Donald Trump first ran for president.
One of the most insightful things Trump ever said was, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, okay? It’s like incredible.” But in 2016, he didn’t quite believe it, not completely.
Now President Trump does believe this. As a consequence, between now and next November, he’ll deal with scandals very differently from the way he did back then.
The reason I say he didn’t quite believe it can be found in the new documents. As you’ll recall, during the 2016 campaign, Trump and his associates arranged to pay Daniels $130,000 to buy her silence about an affair she says she had with Trump.
According to the documents, they were frantic to put a lid on the story. This resulted in a series of phone calls and text messages among Cohen, Trump, spokesperson Hope Hicks, Daniels’s lawyer, and two executives from the parent company of the National Enquirer (the company had arranged a separate hush money payment to another woman with whom Trump allegedly had an affair, Karen McDougal).
Philip Bump summarizes what happened on a single day, Oct. 8, 2016, as the effort to keep Daniels quiet reached a fever pitch:
Hicks called Cohen, looping Trump. Hicks then called Cohen back. Cohen called Pecker, then called him again. Howard called Cohen. Cohen called Hicks. Pecker called Cohen. Cohen called Trump. Howard called Cohen, then called him again. More than half-an-hour of calls, including an eight-minute call with the candidate.
Then a few weeks later, when the Wall Street Journal published an article about McDougal, Cohen texted one of the Enquirer executives, “He’s pissed,” obviously referring to Trump. But when the story seemed to gain little traction, Hicks texted Cohen, “Keep praying!! It’s working!” (We should also note that Hicks seems to have lied to Congress about her involvement in all this.)
From where we stand today, the strangest part of the incident is that they all thought Daniels’s and McDougal’s stories becoming public would be hugely damaging to his campaign.
But even if that wouldn’t have been the case, we have to be clear about a couple of things. First, it appears Trump broke the law. Cohen is currently in prison in part because of his violation of campaign finance laws, violations that he committed in a conspiracy with the future president. I use the word “conspiracy” because that’s what it’s called when two or more people agree to commit a crime together, which is what they did.
You might think that the crime — making a large, unreported in-kind contribution to a political campaign — isn’t murder or anything. But it’s still a crime, and everyone involved acted as if they knew full well that it was, taking efforts to conceal it. Cohen set up a shell company in Delaware to make the payments, and Trump then reimbursed him (you can see a check with Trump’s signature on it here).
Cohen pleaded guilty to this crime, and the only reason Trump was not also prosecuted is apparently that he’s the president of the United States. Which brings us to the second thing to be clear about: Trump lied about it to the public. He was asked directly whether he knew about the payment to Daniels, and he said no.
But that’s all in the past. After surviving a dozen different genres of scandal, from financial (the revelation that he and his family engaged in tax evasion to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars) to personal (an accusation that he raped a woman in a department store dressing room) to policy (separating children from their parents and keeping them in cages), all of which barely budged his remarkably steady but low approval ratings, Trump and those who work for him now know that what he said about shooting someone on Fifth Avenue is absolutely true.
So when the next scandal comes, and the next one and the one after that, they won’t be so worried. They have a playbook, and they know how to implement it. First, Trump will deny whatever shocking behavior has been revealed. Then if that becomes untenable because the proof is there for all to see, he will say that in fact, whatever he did was good.
His aides will be dispatched to repeat the claim, and Republican officeholders will enthusiastically echo his arguments, no matter how absurd (watch this video of Lindsey Graham, best friend to the late John McCain, insisting that it’s okay for Trump to launch racist attacks at members of Congress because McCain never endured the suffering Trump does). The conservative media apparatus will be immediately activated to spread the word. And the Kremlin will probably lend a hand through its social media operatives and army of bots.
The scandal will come and go, and no matter how shocking the facts, its effects will be minimal. The faith of Trump’s most ardent supporters will not be shaken. He’ll survive it just as he has all the others. That doesn’t mean he’ll win reelection, but at this point it’s foolish to think a scandal is going to make his defeat inevitable. No matter how horrifying it is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 14:22:06 GMT
Paul Waldman - Washington Post.. He nailed it!
“Who really hates America here?”
President Trump is now pretending that when the crowd at his latest bacchanal of hate chanted “Send her back," it caused him great distress. He’s doing what he often does when receiving criticism: Lie about it, but with a lie so obvious that his supporters know he’s not really serious and that he still wants them to go on doing what they’re doing.
Here’s what he said:
“I wasn’t happy with the message they gave last night,” Trump said of the crowd at his rally in Greenville, N.C., Wednesday night. “I was not happy when I heard that chant.”
Pressed by a reporter why he did not try to stop the chant directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Trump said he thought he had done so by starting to speak again “very quickly.”
“I started very quickly, and maybe you know that,” he said.
In fact, the president did not start speaking immediately but paused for about 13 seconds as the chants were heard.
Right now, Republicans are struggling to answer questions about all this in a way that doesn’t implicate them in the fact that the racist president they have slavishly supported is making it quite clear that racism will be the foundation of his reelection effort — and that the most ardent racists among his supporters couldn’t be happier about it.
Those Republicans can’t condemn Trump, let alone the voters on whom their own political survival depends. So they seem to be coalescing around the idea that, while a stray comment here or there might be regrettable, the real problem is the four congresswomen and their hatred for America. A brief roundup:
“Is it ‘racist’ to tell people who have contempt for the country — who abhor the common culture that makes us American — that they ought to go back to where they came from?” asks Andrew McCarthy in the National Review.
“This is about love for America. Certain people HATE our Country,” Trump tweets.
”We all know that AOC and this crowd are a bunch of communists,” says Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), referring to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). “They hate America.”
“Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals,” says Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.). “I’m sort of dumbfounded how unappreciative she is of our country,” says Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) about Omar.
Let’s dig down into this idea of hatred for America. What exactly does it mean? If you disagree with the policies of the federal government, does that mean you hate America? How about if you find American culture contemptible? What if you think that core American values such as democracy and freedom of speech are unimportant or unworthy of being spread as widely as possible?
The truth is that, when we say someone “hates America,” we’re describing what we think is a feeling they have. But if you were to ask the conservatives who throw around this charge to articulate a general class of statement that, once uttered, indicates a hatred of America, then show how those four congresswomen’s statements fell into that category, I doubt they could do it.
For instance, many people responded to Omar’s criticism of American policy toward Israel by saying she was anti-American. But if I said, “So you mean that taking the position that current American foreign policy is counterproductive or morally problematic is always proof that one hates America?” they’d probably say, “Well no, that’s not really what I meant.”
Another example: At his rally, Trump referenced the fact that, earlier this year, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said, “We’re going to go in and impeach the motherf----r.” On Wednesday, Trump said, “That’s not somebody that loves our country.” So is it that proposing to impeach a sitting president means you hate America? Is it that using profanity means you hate America?
Trump also has a habit of saying we shouldn’t even espouse our traditional values because we aren’t worthy of them, as in the time he insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be criticized for having journalists and political opponents murdered because “What, do you think our country’s so innocent?”
The president’s own hypocrisy is beyond argument. But I also want to draw attention to something else: Conservatives constantly criticize American culture, yet somehow no one suggests that means they “hate America.” Why is that?
In conservative evangelical circles especially, America is considered a fallen land that has gone into an irredeemable state of moral depravity. Gay people are allowed to marry, teenagers stubbornly continue to have sex, prayer has been banished from public schools. American culture has become a sewer.
Cultural conservatives believe, and not without reason, that the country has left their values behind. They don’t react to this by saying, “All cultures evolve, even if it can be a little disorienting at times.” They react with anger and dismay, and a desire to change things back to the way they used to be. Does that mean they hate America?
We know the answer: As far as Republicans are concerned, their motives are always pure and their patriotism always beyond question. But when Democrats do exactly the same things as Republicans have done, it is proof only of their seething hatred of America.
When we criticize a Democratic president or his policies, it means we love America; when you criticize a Republican president or his policies, it means you hate America. When we criticize American culture for its licentiousness, it means we love America; when you say racism is still a powerful force in our national life, it means you hate America. When we say our economic system undermines the traditional family it means we love America; when you say our economic system exploits workers and creates inequality it means you hate America.
Speaking of the four Democratic congresswomen at his rally, Trump said, “They speak so badly of our country.” But few things have ever spoken worse of our country than the fact that we made Trump our president. Here’s hoping that what’s great about America will enable us to recover.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 14:50:55 GMT
While this guy is full of himself he may be right. Especially when you look at what the Republican Party has been doing these last 11 or so years with gerrymandering, voter suppression, Mitch McConnell antics in the Senate, and the total disregard of trump’s words and actions.
From the Independent...
“I used to work in US intelligence advising presidents on risk. The biggest threat to our country today is the Republican Party”
“I used to help draft the National Intelligence Estimate.
In case you’re not familiar with the finer points of threat assessment within the national security apparatus, the NIE is the big enchilada: the document seen by presidents and members of congress; an objective, non-political, comprehensive piece of work that categorises and prioritises the threats faced by the United States.
While I no longer have regular access to the complete set of intelligence reports from which the NIE is drawn, I have access to some, and I am an avid reader of the related publicly available information.
I’ve developed my own amateur NIE based on this information, and here’s the organisation at the top of the list:
The Republican Party.
Shocking as that may seem – and your level of shock may vary widely depending on how closely you’ve been tracking the actions both center stage and behind the scenes of the rapidly toxifying Grand Ole Party – the real problem with this revelation is that we cannot actually do much about this threat in the classic manner.
The threat from the right is the first national-level “insider threat” the United States has faced since the Civil War. It is insidious, asymmetric, powerful – and existential.
How did I come to this conclusion? Through empirical evidence and specialised experience, using the same approach as when I helped draft a document seen by the most powerful men and women in the country.
One of the effective modern techniques we’ve developed to deal with threats is intelligence analysis – in which we methodically examine all potential threats and categorise them for effective response. Categorisations range from existential – such as that from thermonuclear war with the Soviet Union or global warming – to challenging – such as terrorism – to those of a merely nuisance variety.
The NIE, like all intelligence products, is supposed to be: objective; non-political; current; empirically valid; and zero-based (starting without assumptions.)
A part of categorisation or as a next step is threat prioritisation – in which we basically rank the range of threats we face so we can apply limited resources to bring down the risk. This is a necessary action, but one that is often not totally satisfactory to all citizens. For instance, the shift we’ve had to take in response to terrorism – from total elimination of the threat to limiting its potential impact — does not appear to many Americans as a proportional response to the problem. Nonetheless, from the resource and policy perspective, it is the right course of action.
Let me say it again: the Republican Party is the biggest threat the United States is facing. And without proper attribution, recognition, and a well-articulated and implemented counter-strategy, it could be terminal.
There is no other reasonable conclusion to be drawn from the facts.
An enemy of the United States might seek to sow discord between ethnic groups, or to wage a disinformation campaign, or to highlight moral inconsistencies that weaken the standing of the United States on the world stage. An enemy of the United States might try and degrade the capacity and public trust within our intelligence apparatus. It might use propaganda and weaponised information. It might seek to engage in fraud or other criminal acts to sway an election in their favour.
Does any of that sound familiar?
The Republican Party has steadily embraced authoritarianism, suspect electoral tactics, and racism more and more over the past few decades. That process has been turbocharged with Trump at the helm of the party.
We’re now seeing an explicit embrace of white supremacy. Denial in the face of climate change. Deliberate sowing of discord within the FBI and the CIA. Weakening of the rule of law. Brazen criminality. Removing funding for elections oversight. Blatant human rights abuses at the border.
The explicit nature of these acts is the point. The Republicans mean to bludgeon any and all resistance to their reshaping of the nation’s institutions to their will.
And so far, they’ve gotten away with it.
Donald Trump and his coterie of criminals have done more in two years to weaken the United States than the Soviet Union was able to achieve in decades, a stolen gold medal in Olympic basketball notwithstanding.
In other words, Americans have every right to fear the power and influence of the Republican Party – and it is in fact irrational to continue to downplay the threat even as most, including Nancy Pelosi and many Democrats, continue to do so.
Paul Nailer is a pseudonym
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 14:57:55 GMT
Happening all over.
The rich have gotten disgustingly putrifyingly rich. The working classes have gotten poorer. The working classes instead of demanding that the rich do more to help societies with taxes, instead take it out on each other.
The rich laugh and laugh.
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Post by Merge on Jul 20, 2019 16:34:25 GMT
www.thenation.com/article/tom-friedman-moderate-democrats-versus-progressives/“Look, the moral eye of history is fixated squarely on the moderates and unaffiliated independents this election cycle. Donald Trump is a bigot and a misogynist, who commits crimes against humanity. That is no longer even up for debate. Either independents will support the bigoted atrocities committed by the Trump administration, or they won’t. This is the moral test of this election. Progressives cannot bribe moderates into having a conscience. All progressives can do is make the choice faced by the country clear and unambiguous.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 20, 2019 18:17:02 GMT
Hard to comprehend! The tweet, not Pelosi!
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Post by lizacreates on Jul 20, 2019 18:54:43 GMT
Hard to comprehend! The tweet, not Pelosi! (sigh) I bet there are dozens of words in the dictionary for asinine.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 20, 2019 19:16:58 GMT
(sigh) I bet there are dozens of words in the dictionary for asinine. Context... how the words are used!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2019 21:05:23 GMT
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Post by lucyg on Jul 21, 2019 1:42:51 GMT
He is such a tool.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 21, 2019 3:56:46 GMT
For me Justin Bieber is not always my favorite, but yesterday he did very well!! Justin Bieber: I appreciate Trump helping A$AP Rocky, but 'can you also let those kids out of cages?'By Dakin Andone, CNN Updated 8:25 PM ET, Sat July 20, 2019 (CNN)Justin Bieber supports President Donald Trump's decision to help rapper A$AP Rocky, who is currently in the custody of Swedish police. But the "What Do You Mean" singer thinks others could benefit from the President's attention, too. Bieber said on Twitter late Friday he appreciated the President lobbying Swedish authorities on behalf of the rapper. Earlier Trump had said his administration was working to resolve the matter. "I want my friend out," Bieber tweeted. "I appreciate you trying to help him. But while (you're) at it @realdonaldtrump can you also let those kids out of cages?"** www.cnn.com/2019/07/20/entertainment/justin-bieber-donald-trump-asap-rocky-trnd/index.html
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Post by lizacreates on Jul 21, 2019 17:34:03 GMT
I read this morning that it was indeed Fox & Friends that brought about these last few days from hell. Apparently, Trump watched his morning show where they were featuring the four congresswomen and decided he would “elevate” their exposure, and did so on the same day. I’m hoping F&F does not get into their heads to advocate invading Iran because this is the show that had on its chyron that there were three Mexicos. So-o-o-o not the source of good foreign policy.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 21, 2019 17:37:01 GMT
I read this morning that it was indeed Fox & Friends that brought about these last few days from hell. Apparently, Trump watched his morning show where they were featuring the four congresswomen and decided he would “elevate” their exposure, and did so on the same day. I’m hoping F&F does not get into their heads to advocate invading Iran because this is the show that had on its chyron that there were three Mexicos. So-o-o-o not the source of good foreign policy. I wish we had a president that wasn't influenced by cable television.
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Post by lizacreates on Jul 21, 2019 17:40:48 GMT
I read this morning that it was indeed Fox & Friends that brought about these last few days from hell. Apparently, Trump watched his morning show where they were featuring the four congresswomen and decided he would “elevate” their exposure, and did so on the same day. I’m hoping F&F does not get into their heads to advocate invading Iran because this is the show that had on its chyron that there were three Mexicos. So-o-o-o not the source of good foreign policy. I wish we had a president that wasn't influenced by cable television. It’s simply incredible, isn’t it? Years ago if someone had told me this would happen, I’d laugh out loud at such a ridiculous notion.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Jul 21, 2019 17:52:48 GMT
I wish we had a president that wasn't influenced by cable television. It’s simply incredible, isn’t it? Years ago if someone had told me this would happen, I’d laugh out loud at such a ridiculous notion. I almost wish Fox & Friends would air shows with completely fictitious news. Include made up countries and nonexistent president names. Then we could watch him Tweet in real time about things that don't even exist.
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Post by smginaz Suzy on Jul 21, 2019 17:59:20 GMT
It’s simply incredible, isn’t it? Years ago if someone had told me this would happen, I’d laugh out loud at such a ridiculous notion. I almost wish Fox & Friends would air shows with completely fictitious news. Include made up countries and nonexistent president names. Then we could watch him Tweet in real time about things that don't even exist. Can someone just please buy commercial time on the network during the show and film a parody where that happens? He won't be able to tell the difference anyway.
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Post by jeremysgirl on Jul 21, 2019 18:04:56 GMT
I have long believed it is actually Sean hannity that is our real president. It seems like things go from hannitys lips to Trump's ears
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 18:11:06 GMT
Steven Pasquale...
”Attacking “coastal elites” when u live in a Nyc penthouse and shit in an actual gold toilet in between rounds of golf at your namesake country club, while convincing ignorant white people that you care about them, is the single greatest con job act of snake oil salesmanship ever.”
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 21, 2019 18:42:24 GMT
I'm coastal but surely not an elite in any way shape or form!
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 21, 2019 18:46:11 GMT
YES!!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2019 19:30:15 GMT
link. Oops! Forbes... “Russia's Secret Intelligence Agency Hacked: 'Largest Data Breach In Its History'”“Red faces in Moscow this weekend, with the news that hackers have successfully targeted FSB—Russia's Federal Security Service. The hackers managed to steal 7.5 terabytes of data from a major contractor, exposing secret FSB projects to de-anonymize Tor browsing, scrape social media, and help the state split its internet off from the rest of the world. The data was passed to mainstream media outlets for publishing. FSB is Russia's primary security agency with parallels with the FBI and MI5, but its remit stretches beyond domestic intelligence to include electronic surveillance overseas and significant intelligence-gathering oversight. It is the primary successor agency to the infamous KGB, reporting directly to Russia's president. A week ago, on July 13, a hacking group under the name 0v1ru$ that had reportedly breached SyTech, a major FSB contractor working on a range of live and exploratory internet projects, left a smiling Yoba Face on SyTech's homepage alongside pictures purporting to showcase the breach. 0v1ru$ had passed the data itself to the larger hacking group Digital Revolution, which shared the files with various media outlets and the headlines with Twitter—taunting FSB that the agency should maybe rename one of its breached activities "Project Collander." I received a link to the Digital Revolution site where an initial tranche of breached documents was "published two months ago... as part of that 7.5 terabytes." I won't publish the link here for obvious reasons. Digital Revolution has targeted FSB before. It is unknown how tightly the two hacking groups are linked.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Jul 21, 2019 22:08:31 GMT
This tweet has since been deleted....
Good job GOP
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